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| Rising Phoenix by Xu Bing at Mass MOCA |
Our friends, the Lima's, left today. They will continue their vacation in Philly. We continued our's by going to Mass MoCA in North Adams. Mass MoCA is a museum of contemporary art located in an abandoned mill which also offers a variety of music, dance, performance and education. Thus, there are huge open spaces that offer wonderful opportunities for artists to come and built works. Nothing is permanent here. All shows are truly the newest works. There were two artists exhibiting that I was interested in seeing. The photo above shows Wayne standing under the tail of one of Xu Bings sculptures of a phoenix. For a better look visit Xu Bing. He has built two huge phoenix sculptures out of waste materials. The other artist, Jason Middlebrook has pieces that address his relationship with nature. He has taken vertical slices of huge trees and drawn or painted on them. Both these artist's works are most impressive in person because the size and scale are so powerful.
